While house prices are soaring, so is unemployment. What can we make up of such a scenario? Can we assume real estate market has nothing to do with economy in reality? Else, how do you explain house prices still going up when more and more people are getting unemployed? On the rise in Hamilton: housing prices & […]
The Real Estate Gold Rush
Everyone has a crush for real estate these days … Even people traditionally has nothing to do with real estate, in fact, enemies of the brick and mortar business model – The Geeks: – Google and Facebook employees are flocking to a startup that’s … Image Source Tech Insider–Jun 23, 2016 But it wasn’t a traditional real estate […]
Canadian Real Estate: Hate It Or Love It
So said Motley Fool, which is not a fool, not even remotely close … It is an intelligent investment portal in disguise: – Canadian Real Estate Is Getting Irrational The Motley Fool Canada – Jul 14, 2016 The Economist recently reported that Canada’s housing prices are 35% overvalued when compared to Canadian incomes. Canadian real estate prices to […]
Government’s numbers on foreign real estate buyers are nonsense
Government’s foreign buyer numbers way off according to Asian real estate conference Asia Real Estate Association of America, Vancouver chapter representatives say the government’s data sample is too low to be accurate. Agents, experts say Chinese buyers account for much more than 3% of B.C. homebuyers China Cash Power A provincial government statement that only […]
Vancouver Empowered To Tax Empty Homes
Attention: Investors who parked their money in Vancouver real estate You gotta pay more taxes very soon, if you leave a building vacant like this one, (because Mr. de Jong will empower the city to dig the hell out of your pocket): – Image Source Vancouver: “I Got The Power” Provincial B.C. government to change Vancouver charter […]
Vancouver: Foreign Buyers, Flawed Numbers, Racism, Unaffordability & Downturn
Hardly anyone believe only 5% of real estate buyers are foreigners Preliminary data collected by the B.C. government suggests only 5% of the recent buyers (last 20 days to be exact) are foreigners. Guess what, hardly anyone believe that is the case, many commented the 5% as flawed, misleading, obfuscatory, laughably incomplete and useless … downright […]